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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Charles Caleb Colton

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody’s watching.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Character Measurement True Watch
True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enough Satisfaction True
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Admit Justice Moments Myself Reading
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adversity Himself Prosperity
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Enemy Hold Obligation Power
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Born Eyes Man Oneself Proverb
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Age Old Youth
Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Body Cure Discover Human Mindset Weakness
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Cheerful Life Old Sun Winter
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Choice Evil Human Leave
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Difference Fools Greatness Happiness Wisdom
Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Admire Difficult Fine Writing
In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Brave Death Road Sense Terrible
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dangerous Deal Fools
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Book Friendship Goodness

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

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